This article analyzed four advertisements of Veja magazine 2005 (March edition), based on Social semiotics and multimodality, in which men of different ages and context appeared as represented participants. In a social semiotic perspective, the aim of the paper was to identify the meaning potentials expressed by different interpersonal semiotic modes, related to emotional contents. We have proposed a different analytical perspective of the emotion sign creating categories of multimodal analyses, which complemented those already, available in the literature (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). The results revealed the advertisements as a product of the engagement at hegemonic masculinity based mainly on power and lack of emotions.
Social semiotics; multimodality; emotions; masculinity
